Leo Brewer
Leo Brewer (13 June 1919,
St. Louis,
Missouri – 22 February 2005,
Lafayette, California) was an American physical chemist. Considered to be the founder of modern high-temperature chemistry, Brewer received his BS from the
California Institute of Technology in 1940 and his PhD from the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1942. Brewer joined the
Manhattan Project following his graduate work, and joined the faculty at the
University of California, Berkeley in 1946. Leo Brewer married Rose Strugo (died 1989) in 1945. They had three children, Beth Gaydos, Roger Brewer, and Gail Brewer. He died in 2005 as a result of
Beryllium poisoning from his work in
World War II.
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